Anime Week brings you a roundup of the latest anime news from the past week. From October 19th to 25th, the news that "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Infinity Castle Arc Chapter 1 - Akaza Returns" has surpassed 36.7 billion yen in box office revenue, and new information about "The Apothecary Diaries" was announced, were some of the hot topics.
On the 19th, it was announced that the TV anime "The Easygoing Lord's Fun Territory Defense: Turning an Unnamed Village into the Strongest Fortress City with Production Magic," based on a light novel created on the novel submission site "Shosetsuka ni Naro a Novelist," will begin airing in January 2026.
On the 20th, it was announced that the animated film " 100 Meters ", based on the manga by Uoto, who is also known for " Orb: On the Movements of the Earth (Chi: Chikyu no Undo ni Tsuite), " which was adapted into a TV anime, had grossed over 500 million yen in the 31 days since its release on September 19th. The film has been a hit, with audience numbers exceeding 360,000.
On the 20th, it was announced that a new anime, "Kaiju Decode: Aidara's Ring," will be produced as part of the media project "KAIJU DECODE," a joint project between Toei Animation and Tsuburaya Productions. The anime is set in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, and will feature voice actors Aya Yamane as Maru and Karin Takahashi as Coco.
On the 20th, it was announced that the box office revenue of the new movie version of the anime " Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba " based on the popular manga by Koyoharu Gotouge , " Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie : Infinity Castle Arc Castle Arc Chapter 1: Akaza Returns," has exceeded 36.7 billion yen. The movie has been a huge hit, with audience numbers exceeding 25.33 million.
On the 20th, it was announced that the box office revenue of the animated film " Chainsaw Man : Reze Arc," a sequel to the TV anime " Chainsaw Man ," based on Tatsuki Fujimoto 's popular manga, had exceeded 6.5 billion yen. It was a huge hit, attracting an audience of over 4.26 million people. It has been ranked number one in the movie audience rankings (according to the Box Office Information Company) for five consecutive weeks.
On the 21st, it was announced that the latest TV anime in the Pierrot Magical Girl series, which includes Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel Creamy Mami, "Magical Sisters Lullutto Lily," will begin airing in April 2026. The Pierrot Magical Girl series is a series that aired five works on TV between 1983 and 1998, and this will be the first time a new TV anime will be broadcast in about 28 years, since the fifth work, "Magical Stage Fancy Lala," which aired in 1998. The main characters will be sisters Nonoyama Kaze and Nonoyama Ryu.
On the 22nd, a stage greeting for the original animated film "The Last Blossom," a collaboration between director Kinoshita Mugi, who worked on the TV anime "Odd Taxi," and manga artist and screenwriter Konomoto Kazuya, was held at Shinjuku Wald 9 (Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo), with director Kinoshita and voice actors Natsuki Hanae and Soma Saito appearing. Hanae praised "Housenka," saying, "When I put myself in their shoes, it really touched me and brought me to The Last Blossom . The structure is fantastic, and the plot twists are resolved at the end, and I was moved by how neatly it all wraps up."
On the 22nd, it was announced that the third season of the anime " The Apothecary Diaries ," based on the light novel by Natsu Hyuga , which originated on the novel submission website " Shosetsuka ni Naro, " will be produced, The Apothecary Diaries Diaries" will have a feature film, and it will be released in December 2026. The third season of the anime will be split into two seasons, with the first season airing on Nippon Television in October 2026 and the second season airing in April 2027.
On the 23rd, KTV announced that it will be launching a new anime slot, "Kaanibal!!," on Tuesdays at 11pm on the KTV/Fuji TV network nationwide in January 2026. The first to be aired will be the TV anime "Tune In to the Midnight Heart," based on the romantic comedy manga by Igarashi Masakuni currently serialized in "Weekly Shonen Magazine" (Kodansha), which will begin airing on January 6th, 2026. It was also announced that "Ghost in the Shell," "Choujun! Chojo Senpai," and "Marriage Toxin" will also be broadcast in the same slot.
On the 24th, it was announced that "BLUE GALE XABUNGLE SIDE R," an experimental video based on the robot anime "Combat Mecha Xabungle," which aired from 1982 to 1983, will be released on November 13th at "TAMASHII NATION 2025," which will be held in Akihabara, Tokyo, and on the Sunrise YouTube channel. As with "BLUE GALE XABUNGLE SIDE L," which was released in May, Kamikaze Douga and Bandai Namco Filmworks have teamed up to produce the video, with young creators "reinterpreting it from a different perspective."
On the 24th, it was announced that the manga "Kiriou Fan Club" about the Earth fish Pon-chan, which has also been made into a TV drama, will be made into a TV anime in 2026.
On the 25th, it was revealed that Kyoto Animation's latest TV anime, "20th Century Electric Catalog - Eureka Evrika -," will be produced and will air in 2026. The original work is the light novel "20th Century Electric Catalog" by Hiroshi Yuki, published by KA Esuma Bunko.
